Egg beater



May 3, 1927. 1,627,314

" o. R. BoYNToN EGG BEATER v Filed oct. 5. 1925 Llllllll HllllllllIlIlIlIlI"IlIIIIIIIIIIIIllllllllllf -J /5 INVENTOR.

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Patented May 3,1927. i i* Y i N. l UNITED STATES PATENT:oFFlcE.

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r `naar BEATER. y i ,Application Imca-october 5, 19.23. seriarm. 60,490. My inventionrelates to improvements in In the operation of the beater, the operaegg beaters. y tor holds the handhold 2, and the support- One of the objects of my invention 1s to lng member 12 rests on the bottom of the provide an egg beater which is simple, cheap, container of the materials to be beaten. The 6i) i' 5 durable, not liable to get out of order, and drive gear wheel 10 is rotated by means of which is particularly well adapted for sucthe crank arm 11, thereby rotating the pincessfully properly beating storage eggs.` ion` 9 rotary shaft 8 and member 6. The The novel features of my invention are rotation of the member 6 oscillates the rock hereinafter fully described and claimed. shaft 3 by means of the link 5 and crank 65 10 In the accompanying drawing, which illuspin 7 the orbit of the latter being of suffitrates the preferred embodiment of my inciently small diameter to effect oscillation vention, Y of the crank arm 4 and of the rock shaft 3 i Fig. 1 is a side elevation of my improved and helix 13.

egg beater. While my beater may be utilized for vari-4 70 Fig; 2 is another side view partly in eleous purposes, such as mixing different mavation and partly in vertical section. terials and beating fresh eggs, it is particu- Fig. 3 is a cross section, partly broken larly Well adapted for beating storage eggs, away, on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1. y which are diiiicult and, sometimes, impossi- Similar reference characters designate ble to properly beat with the usual egg 75 similar parts in the different views. beaters, the storage eggs being stale and not 1 designates suitable bearing means, prefcapable of being beaten to the consistency erably comprising a casting having at its of beaten fresh eggs, with-the beaters usuupper end a handhold 2, and having oscilally Vemployed for beating eggs. Y latably mounted in it a vertical rock shaft 3, By having the rock shaft arranged to 80 which is provided with a crank arm 4 to wholly support the bearing means for the which is pivotally connected a link 5, which gearing which oscillates the shaft, and by is eccentrically pivotally connected to a rohaving the supporting member 12 carried tary member 6, by being pivoted to a crank by the rock shaft, avery simple, cheap and pin 7 with which the member 6 is provided. easily cleanedV structure is effected, and S5 In the bearing member 1 is mounted a which permits of the use of the device ina rotary shaft 8 on one end of which is fascontainer having an inner diameter but tened the rotary member 6, and on the other slightly larger than thek diameter of the end of which is fastened a pinion 9, which beater. Y o meshes with a spur gear wheel 10 rotatably I do not limit my invention tothe struc- 90 mounted on the member 1, and which is proture shown and described, as many modificavided with an operating crank arm 11. tions, within the sco e of :the-'appended The lower end of the rock shaft 3 is oscilclaims, may be made without departing from latable in a supporting member or button 12, the spirit of my invention. which is carried by the rock shaft andis What I claim isz* n y 40 adapted to reston the bottom of thecon- 1. In an egg beater, bearing means having tainer, not shown, which holds the eggs to a handhold, a rock shaft oscillatable on and' be beaten. supporting said bearing means and having Supported by the rock shaft 3 is a beater a crank arm, a beater comprising an annular comprising, preferably an annular wire helix wire helix encircling said shaft, and an arm 13, which encircles the rock shaft 3l above secured to said helix and to said shaft, and the member 12, and an arm or arms 14 means for oscillating said crank arm. which are secured to and revolve with the 2. In an egg beater, bearing means havhelix 13 and which are secured to and osciling aV handhold, a rock shaft oscillatable on. Y

preferably oblong in cross section, as shown, portlng member in which said shaft is oscilwith flat upper and lower sides, but such latable, a beater comprising an'annular wire form is not essential. helix encircling said shaft above said sup- A collar 15 is secured to the rock shaftB, port, and an arm secured to said helix and the member 1 to hold the rock vshaft 3 from shaft. downward relative movement. 3. An egg beater comprising bearing late with the rock shaft 3. The helixV is and supporting said bearing means, a sup- ,and is adapted to have a bearing against to saidshaft, and means for oscillating said 110 Vbelow said bearing means,A and! means carrled by s'ald bearlng means for osclllatmg said rock shaft; v y A 4. An egg beater comprising bearing means, a rock shaft Wholly support/ngfsaid bearing means and osellatable thereon, a

Saflf-bearing means beater` canred.: by 'saidshafft' Wholly below said-bearing means; means carried by for oscillating said roc shaft, and-asuppertfearred by said rock shaft Wholly below sand beater and onwhich v,'dlefrock shaft s oscillat'able.

In testimony whereof I haversigned rny nam"e"to2 tir-iis; Specification.

@LIVER R. BOYNTON. 

